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ABOUT THE AUTHORS Ewa Bodal is a PhD student at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Her research interests focus on contemporary Englishlanguage Canadian literature, centring around issues such as difference, gender studies and postcolonialism. She is currently working on her PhD studies in this area. She has published on Canadian minority literatures and on PolishCanadian women writers. Agnieszka Brodzik received her M.A. from Nicolaus Copernicus University and works as a translator. The subject of her thesis and the article arose from the interest in gothic studies. She is also the editor of Carpe Noctem, a website devoted to gothic fiction with the aim of presenting the more intellectual side of the genre. Katarzyna Burzyńska defended her PhD dissertation on Shakespearean and Marlovian overreachers at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Her dissertation combines Nietzschean theory on great individuals with ideas on the development of Elizabethan individualism. Her research interests include the Elizabethan period, Shakespeare studies, the relation between literature and philosophy as well as existentialism and Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. So far she has published five research papers including “Jean Luc Godard’s King Lear in the Light of Existentialism” in Ex-changes : Comparative Studies in British and American Cultures (2012) and “A Polish Hamlet : Zbigniew Herbert’s ‘Elegy of Fortinbras’” in New Readings Journal (2012). Anna Jaskólska is a graduate of the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, where she is currently a PhD student in linguistics. Her 210
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research interests include sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and evolution of language. She is writing her doctoral dissertation on the subject of phonoiconic phenomena in English. Sława Krasińska is a lecturer in American Literature and American Culture at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where she is currently completing the PhD dissertation entitled: Paul Auster’s Fiction from Bakhtinian Perspective. Her interests include the theory and practice of contemporary fiction and popular culture in the U.S.. Marta Lupa is a graduate of Nottingham University (2009) with M.A. in English Literature. She is currently working as an independent scholar and a teacher of English as a foreign language. Her published works include “Realism versus Experimentalism. Form and Personal Memory in The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson and Holiday by Stanley Middleton.” (Meridian Critic, Vol. XVIII, Nr. 1, 2011), “Margaret Drabble’s Affair with the Past in The Witch of Exmoor, The Peppered Moth and The Seven Sisters.” (Research in EFL and Literature Context: Challenges
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Mijušković, Atiner, 2014). Conferences: 4th English Literary Meeting in Bydgoszcz—paper presented: “’To suspend a disbelief’. Confessional Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century and Postmodern Novel”, 5th Annual Conference on Literature, Language and Linguistics in Athens—paper presented: “Margaret Drabble’s Affair with the Past in The Witch of Exmoor, The Peppered Moth and The Seven Sisters.” Natalia Pałka received her B.A. and M.A. from Nicolaus Copernicus University. She is currently a PhD student at Nicolaus Copernicus University. Her research interests include pragmatics and current studies on politeness and impoliteness.
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Monika Pasek is a full time key account manager, a part time English language teacher, an occasional translator and a frequent cinema and theatre goer. She graduated from the University of Łodź, where she studied Media, Film and Theatre at English Philology and finished a course in journalism at the faculty of Polish Philology. She used to share his passion for English language and literature with students as an academic teacher (her teaching subjects: modern British literature, British culture, Integrated Skills). Now she conducts research in film studies, concentrating on the theory of film adaptation and the theory of film remakes. Katarzyna Piotrowska received her B.A. and M.A from the University of Gdańsk. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Nicolaus Copernicus in Toruń. Her research interest focuses on Native American women’s literature in the United States of America. She is also interested in methodology and didactics of foreign language teaching. Agnieszka Podruczna received her M.A. from the University of Silesia and she is currently a PhD candidate and a lecturer at the University of Silesia, at the Department of Postcolonial Studies and Travel Writing. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, gender studies, body studies, and the theory of science fiction. Tanja Reiffenrath is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the University of Paderborn (Germany) where she also teaches American literature and culture. She has recently submitted her PhD thesis "Memoirs of Well-being: Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability," a study of contemporary American illness and disability memoirs. She has published At Borders and Crossroads: Conceptualizing the New Mestiza in Chicana Literature at AVM in 2008 and given papers on a variety of topics, such as Chicano culture, transnationalism, identity politics, and illness narratives. Her study on 212
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transnational cinema, titled From Ethnic to Transnational: Screening Indian American Families, has been published with LIT Verlag in 2014. Katarzyna Rogalska received her M.A. from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She is currently a PhD student at the aforementioned university. Her research interests include sociolinguistics and evolution of language. Monika Sarul received her M.A. from the University of Lodz in 2011. Currently she is a PhD student at the University of Lodz. Her research interests include contemporary British theatre, especially political drama. Marta Sibierska received her B.A. and M.A. from Nicolaus Copernicus University, where she is currently a PhD student. Her research interests include modernist writings, primarily the works of Virginia Woolf, the interrelations of literature with cognitive and Darwinian studies, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy. Nelly Strehlau is a lecturer in the Department of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Her primary research interests include American culture, feminism, gender studies and postfeminism. She is working on her PhD dedicated to the subject of postfeminist identities and affects in contemporary American television series. Monika Włudzik is a PhD student at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Her main research interests include medical humanities, translation studies and corporeality. She is currently working on a thesis examining issues related to ethics and embodiment in autobiographical illness narratives.
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